The Brookhaven leader., 1887-07-28
SOUTHERN GLEANINoS.

A student at Vanderbilt University, in
Tennessee, has Just beat the worlds rec
ord in high kicking, having succeeded In
hitting a mark at the unprecedented
height Of nine feet three and one-half
inches.
Miss Lemley, of Montgomery County,
Tenn, com mitted suicide by hanging o
few days ago. She was a religious en-
thusiast, and her mind had become un-
balanced.
The ex-Union negro soldiers at New Or
leans are clamoring for admission 10 the
Grand Army Of the Republic. Having
been refused by the local department,
they will appeal TO the Grand Encamp-
ment at st. Louis.
There is at present at Mount Vernon,
Ala, an old army mule that has
a record of service in the army coverin g
a period Of sixty years. He has been en-
tered on the Government rolls as pen
sioner, getting his feed and care during
life and exemp ption from sale.
Near Troy, Tenn, a few evenings sin ce,
James B Kitchel was run over and in
stantly killed by train on the Chesas
peake Il Ohio railroad. Kitchel was a
blacksmith, originally from Metropolis,
Ill He left wife and several childre n.
bill recently introduced into the
Georgia Legislature prohibits the use OF
the little chromcs that go with packages
of cigarettes.
Nine head of thoroughbred Holstein-
Tristan cattle were poisoned few nights
ago by some unknown person, who threw
paris green, mixed with salt in j. S. Ell
munds' pasture, near Manchester, La.
Eight of the animals have died.
The boiler of E. L. Cham berlain's new
saw-mill at Natchez, Miss, exploded a
few days ice, wrecking the mill, kill
ing Dorsey Scott (colored), firem an, and
injuring NJ. Cham berlain, the engineer
and proprietor, and two or three others.
The startling discovery was made at
Lexington, KY, few nights ago that
the incendiaries who set on fire the large
coal and feed esta biiS Shment of Des cognets
Il Co. twice within week are five small
boys ranging in age from seven to nine
years, some Of them belonging to good
families.
Parties digging a well in Nashville,
Tenn, few days since, found the tusk OF
mastodon twenty-eight inches in cir
cumference and nearly seven feet long.
Prof. Stafford, State Geologist and Pro
fessor of Mineralogy and Geology at Van.
derbilt University, examined it, and pro
nounced it undoubtedly the remains OF a
mastodon.
Nimrod Burrow, an old and eccentric
farmer of Carlisle County, KY, was shot
and killed by his tenant, Jack Russell, a
few days ago. The weapon used was a
shotgun, the load taking effect in Bur.
rows head, killing him instantly. A feud
had existed between the two men for
some time.
Fire destroyed the Barnhardt Hotel, a
two-story wooden structure, at Bessemer,
Ala, few nights ago, together with
twenty-one adjoining houses of the same
character. Thirteen persons were hurt
bad enough to need the services OF the
physicians, and the injuries of an en-
graver named Frederick Peterson were
thought to be fatal.
United States Marshal Gross and an
armed force left Louisville, XIV, a few
days since for Campbellsburg, the county
seat of TAYLOR County, XIV, to make q
levy in enforcement of ju igment against
the people of the county for railroad
The people are furious, and lively times
were ex pected.
For some time past freight cars of the
Knoxville branch of the Louisville &
Nashville road have been systematically
robbed and large amounts Of goods taken
William Pollock, a brakeman, for fifteen
years in the roads service, was arrested a.
Louisville, few days since, and conf 'ssed
the robbery. He duplicates j, m IS Fdell
coorel boarding house keeper o.
Lebanon, KY. Most Of the stolen goods
were Cincinnati shipments, some Of which
have been recovered.
Daisy Cherry, an eleven-year-o col
ored girl of Barnvell, N. C., has beer
convicted of the murder of white in
fant, and sentenced to be hanged at Co
lum bia in September. The young Grim
inal was hired out by her parents t.
nurse white baby. The work was dis
tasteful to her, and she administered {
dose of concentrated I've to the child,
which caused its death in few hours.
T. DE- Witt Saddler shot and killed J. c
Harrison at Pineapple, Ala, few days
ago, and the coroner's jury gave a verdic
of accidental homicide. They had beer
out hunting and began joking by Saddlel
asking for chew of tobacco. Harrison
refused, and Saddler pointed his gun al
him playfully, when it went off by acci
dent, killing Harrison on the spot Boil
were respectable white citizens.
At Wmchester, Va, recently, the granC
jury indicted "a promine 1t 1sraelite mer
chant, n. Kohn, and his niece, Emmf
Frankel. The parties were married by
Rabbi Phi lipson, of Har Sinai Taber
nacle, in Baltimore, January 81, 1887, ant
returned to Winchester to reside. Tht
Virginia law forbds the marriage in The
State Of parties thus connected, or, hav
ing been married, from returning there t.
reside as man and wife. The pc atty i:
a heavy fine and Imprisonment. Eminen
counsel has been engaged by Kohn.
The Georgia House of Representatives
passed the Pelton Wine-Room bill by g
vote of SO to 49, The necessity for the bill
arose from the fact that the law under
which 11S of the 1877 counties of GeorgiS
have become drv, permits the sale of do
mestic wine. Under this law the State
was filled with wine-rooms, which SOLD
vilest compounds of wine and whisky
The bill imposes a tax of $40, 600 yea
upon each and every one of these wine
rooms.
Fran X Allen, residing at Marble Hill
Franklin County, Tenn, cut his throa
from ear to ear a few days ago while ii
the presence of his wife, and died a few
minutes later. Allen had been acting
queer lately, so much so that it wa:
deemed best to seld him to the STATE
Asylum for the Insane. Mrs. Allen tolt
him that DIR. Taylor was in an adjoinin!
room to examine him. He Immediately
drew knife from his pocket and sue
ceeded in cutting his throat before ht
could be prevented.
Cotton is showing up we'll.
The resi- lence of Mr.. R j. wilkins, a
Paducah, Ky, was totally destroyed BY
fire, together with all its contens s, a few
nights ago. The building was valued a
$4,000, on which there was an insurance o
$500 The loss on the furniture is es ii